(a.) Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
(n.) A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
(2) George Osborne gets a going over from Labour MP John Mann , after the former introduced an ill-fated tax on Cornish pasties "Yes, because I don't like him."
(3) The contents of the cysts were pasty and semisolid.
(4) I was one of the session musicians and when I got to the studio a pasty, 98lb, orange-haired man covered in white pancake makeup came through the door.
(5) What to eat: Minipastéis de feijão (deep-fried bean pasties).
(6) The animals could be nourished sufficiently via the interponate with pasty food.
(7) They are firmer and less flaky than Cornish pasties and don't break, making them the perfect picnic food.
(8) In the days and weeks that followed, there were U-turns on his ill-judged charity tax, which was disastrously at odds with David Cameron's attempts to build a "big society" with the help of the charitable sector, as well as on the pasty tax and the caravan tax.
(9) The MPs' strongly worded report will stir memories at the Treasury of last year's "omnishambles" budget, when the chancellor was forced to reverse a series of key policies, including the controversial "pasty tax" and a cap on tax relief for charitable donations, after vocal public criticism.
(10) (If you're not a football fan, this was like having a chat with Jean-Paul Sartre over a pastis in a Parisian cafe.)
(11) Biodegradable pasty-type copolyesters with a relatively low molecular weight of 4500 were synthesized by direct copolycondensation of epsilon-caprolactone (CL) and delta-valerolactone (VL) in the absence of catalysts to evaluate in vivo capabilities of the polymer for implantable controlled release devices in drug delivery systems.
(12) Now the white cross on a black background is ubiquitous, fluttering outside county hall in Truro and printed on everything from souvenir boxes of fudge to pasty packaging and car bumper stickers.
(13) Listen here you pooncy, pasty faced person from some pissant place that no one cares about, half my electorate are probably in de facto relationships and they are happy, normal living people who do their very best for their families and their communities.
(14) A questionnair of 115 items was analysed by computer using a Pastis-Pascal programme (see attached).
(15) Leading the online tributes: comparisons with snooker’s Whispering Ted Lowe and with “a Dignitas satnav”, plus this from @mrchrisaddison : “If a Wild Bean Cafe pasty could talk…” Best aside Gary Lineker , during the BBC’s half-time chat, asking his star pundit: “Did you ever get away with a handball, Thierry?” Hipster count Italy: Seven beards, England: one.
(16) The reports are likely to cheer the Treasury after a fortnight that started with the granny tax debacle during the chancellor's budget and ended with George Osborne parrying questions from MPs on his reasons for applying VAT to pasties.
(17) Javid caused some surprise at Westminster when he let it be know that, even as the most junior member of the Osborne team as his PPS, he clocked most of the pitfalls in the 2012 "omnishambles" budget which became embroiled in a row over the pasty tax and the caravan tax.
(18) This last change, while perfectly defensible, may well come back to haunt the chancellor: his tax on white van man to mirror George Osborne’s pasty tax.
(19) "It has to be very well-cooked – not all white and pasty," said customer Roger.
(20) When they're just done, transfer to a warm plate and deglaze the pan with a splash of pastis.
Patsy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) • Patsy Byrne, actor, born 13 July 1933; died 17 June 2014
(2) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
(3) They then swung across to Louisiana, where they gunned down convenience-store cashier Patsy Byers, paralysing her from the neck down.
(4) The visiting captain left his best to the closing moments of the half when a juggling act left Leon Osman and Sylvain Distin the patsies in a move that finished with Lallana's volley missing by inches.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bowie with, Patsy Kensit and Eddie O’Connell in Absolute Beginners in 1986.
(6) The use of a potential proxy to drive a bomb to a security force base will bring back memories in Derry of the 1990 murder of Catholic contractor Patsy Gillespie.
(7) Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live earlier today, Yentob added: "If you're negotiating with someone else as well you feel a bit of a patsy if you're sitting down so we stopped and said, 'Do you want to come?'
(8) But I remembered something: in the late 80s, Patsy and I were at a very, very glamorous evening in Hollywood to celebrate a very, very important Hollywood star, and you were the emcee for the evening.
(9) Tim Jonze When You Need a Laugh – Patsy Cline Songs I've heard at dawn return to make me cry in daylight, however saccharine and bloated ( Kelly Clarkson's Because of You , please be kind).
(10) Patsy Baker, a partner from Bell Pottinger is also listed on the documents as sitting on another table.
(11) Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool overpowered Manchester City with intensity | Michael Cox Read more This victory over City was a triumph for Klopp’s gegenpressing ethos – the quick switch from attack to a high press – as City were cast as hapless patsies who made countless errors and gave up possession cheaply.
(12) Perhaps his violent obsession with blondes had its roots in an incident at the age of 12, when his blonde girlfriend Patsy Morris, 14, was found strangled on Hounslow Heath.
(13) Meanwhile Alderman, when he succeeded Wardle at the SFO, insisted he was no patsy.
(14) Patsy Bivins, 68, a retired waitress from Sturgiss, Kentucky, is one of hundreds or even thousands who have been warned to look out for the tell-tale symptoms of a splitting headache, fever, stiff neck, difficulty walking or worsening back pain.
(15) While there are many holes in Pyne’s denial and the uncomfortably eroding rebuttal from Abbott, there were just as many questions left unanswered by the relatively patsy interview on 60 Minutes.
(16) LP: Last autumn, I worked with Unicef and Patsy and I were in Hanoi for the first time.
(17) His refusal to sign a petition calling for the release of the imprisoned Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo led to him being dismissed by Salman Rushdie as a "patsy of the regime" , while his fellow Nobel laureate Herta Müller called his win " a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights ".
(18) The new attorney general, appointed in controversial circumstances last December, is seen by the opposition as a Brotherhood patsy.
(19) Clegg had been prepared for attacks by Labour that he has turned into a Tory patsy, but he is insistent he has ensured the budget has not followed the path of most previous fiscal consolidations by hitting the poor hardest.
(20) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.